Title

The rquotad daemon must be disabled on AIX. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

The rquotad service allows NFS clients to enforce disk quotas on file systems that are mounted on the local system. This service should be disabled if to prevent attacks.

Check Content

From the command prompt, execute the following command: # grep "^rquotad[[:blank:]]" /etc/inetd.conf If there is any output from the command, this is a finding.

Fix Text

In "/etc/inetd.conf", comment out the "rquotad" entry by running command: # chsubserver -r inetd -C /etc/inetd.conf -d -v 'rquotad' -p 'udp' Restart inetd: # refresh -s inetd

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-215385r508663_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-215385

Group Title: SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

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